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I didn't know Tor had an Executive Director. Looking now at their staff list [0], I'm now unsure about how they have the money to support all these employees. A
by mfkp 12y ago
I didn't know Tor had an Executive Director. Looking now at their staff list [0], I'm now unsure about how they have the money to support all these employees. All I see is a donate button.
[0] https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en
- ta82828 12y agoTor is funded at least partly by the U.S. government. https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en See: * Radio Free Asia * US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor * Naval Research Laboratory
- noir_lord 12y agoA fact that in light of all the stuff in the last few years is doubly hilarious.
- ta82828 12y agoI've read that the primary motivation is to allow intelligence assets in other countries to communicate with the agencies they work for. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/96791ee9-98d5-44a0-b0a9-c2a5b3b6ec31/72b5e81135196815a23eb969d080ddf0 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/96791ee9-98d5-44a0-b0a9...
- mikeash 12y agoIt's well known that Tor is vulnerable to traffic analysis by an adversary that can basically monitor the entire internet. In the past, this was considered impractical, but now we know the NSA does something like this. Since this is inherent in its design, that means it doesn't really matter if it's funded by the US government, because they don't even need to weaken it in the first place. Not to say that funding diversity wouldn't be a good thing, but there's no particular reason to think Tor is broken any more than is already known because of where the money currently comes from.
- antocv 12y agoWhat about I2P?
- wongarsu 12y agoI2P claims to try to defend against large scale traffic analysis, but they are a underfunded project with few contributors. There was some mention of implementing cover traffic which would solve the issue (at the cost of massively increasing traffic), but I don't think that's happened yet.
- throwaway7767 12y agoI2P, being fully decentralised, is also very vulnerable to a sybil attack. Join thousands of nodes to the network, wait until you are strategically placed, then follow the traffic streams routed through your nodes. Of course, sybil attacks are a concern in any open network. In theory the tor directory authorities are able to deny new nodes so they have some recourse, but in practice if you stagger your new nodes you can still infiltrate the network. :/ The fact is, anonymity systems are a hard and unsolved problem. That's not due to the source of the funding. We take what we get.
- dublinben 12y agoIf you find this fact concerning, please donate to the Tor project.
- liamk 12y ago"The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees."
- martinald 12y agoIt's a 501(c)(3) organisation so you should be able to see for yourself. I'm not a USian so don't know how to pull them out, would be very interested to know.
- dustcoin 12y agoThey have publicly posted financial reports: https://www.torproject.org/about/financials.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/financials.html.en
- darkstar999 12y agoIRS form 990 will tell you a 501c3's finances, they are required to release it annually.
- lalos 12y agoAlso Tor Project is available on http://smile.amazon.com http://smile.amazon.com and almost every purchase you make they will receive 0.5% of the total as long as you make it through the smile subdomain.
- webwanderings 12y agohttp://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
- middleclick 12y agoPlease, if you have to paste something, at least don't paste the absolutely ludicrous Pando article, which has been debunked many many times. It does nothing but say that Tor is compromised just because it was funded by the government.
- webwanderings 12y agoPlease paste the link which debunks Pando's thesis. I'd like to read.
- middleclick 12y agohttp://blog.erratasec.com/2014/11/the-pando-tor-conspiracy-troll.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/11/the-pando-tor-conspiracy-t... https://micahflee.com/2014/12/fact-checking-pandos-smears-against-tor/ https://micahflee.com/2014/12/fact-checking-pandos-smears-ag...